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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1935
Page
2
An article extols milk as essential for growth from infancy through adulthood. It highlights milk’s minerals for bones teeth and muscles and urges buying fresh pure milk from a sanitary source. It suggests Charles L Woodland Milk of 64 Waverley Ave Watertown Mid for home delivery.
Dr Herman N Bundeeen of the American Public Health Association and Chicago health director extols candy as a nutritious energy source. He cites sugars fats minerals and vitamins found in milk nuts and fruit and urges winter consumption. The George Close Co Cambridge Mass is praised for quality ingredients and sanitation.
The article notes singing sands along England's coast, especially at Studland in Dorset. Dry sand can emit a tinkling note when dropped, with wind and tide conditions influencing sound. Microscope shows rounded, polished grains with little fine matter, similar to other British patches and other nations' coastlines. A South American name for the sands is "the devil's drum."
A vast stone block, said to be the largest ever hewn by man, lies half buried in rubbish at Heetbeck in Syria. The 60 foot block is linked to Baalbeck's famed temple complex, noted for massive ancient stones and monumental craftsmanship.
The article notes China’s ancient tombs and memorials in Hangzhou and across the country. Coffin houses line hillside paths with rows of small attached buildings awaiting burial on an auspicious day chosen by a geomancer. Rich families delay interment for decades until a lucky date aligns.
Under the act of February 15 1900 Supreme Court justices may retire at age seventy after ten years of service and receive lifelong pay equal to their salary.
The twelfth edition of George White’s Scandals arrives at the Boston Opera House for a week starting Monday Nov 11. Critics hail it as the most ornate and humorous yet with Bert Lahr Everett Marshall Cliff Edwards Gracie Barrie leading a large cast including George White beauties and many notable performers. Two matinees are scheduled one Wednesday and one Saturday.
The Crusades a grand epic opens at the Metropolitan Theatre with Loretta Young and Henry Wilcoxon in a cast of over 100 name players and thousands of extras. Also staged pageant The Three Sailors and Gus Van starring Caroline Marsh Bobby Burns and the Elida Ballet are featured. Ian Keith Katherine DeMille C Aubrey Smith Joseph Schildkraut and Alan Haie are in the cast.
The Lets Swing It Revue opens Thursday at the RKO Boston Theatre featuring Judith Allen and Jack Doyle with Louise Beavers Johnny Perkins and Ruth Petty. Also on screen is Vina Delmar's Bad Boy with James Dunn and Dorothy Wilson, supported by Louise Fazenda and Victor Kilian.
Keith Memorial Theatre presents Remember Last Night a mystery thriller adapted from Hangover Murders and featuring Edward Arnold Constance Cummings Sally Eilers Robert Young Louise Henry Robert Armstrong Gregory Ratoff Reginald Denny Monroe Owsley Jack LeHue Rafaela Ottiano and Arthur Treacher. The program includes a two reel short Camera Thrills Pa the News and an organ exposition by Haydn.
Ambitious amateur boxers compete at the Irish American A. A. contest in the Boston Arena with six open weight classes 126 135 147 160 175 and heavyweights. Cambridge fans praise the weekly tourneys and the event boosts local boxing interest. Congratulations to Tom Kanaly George Freeman and the T. A. A. A.
Sir Thomas Lipton, famed British yachtsman, once operated a streetcar in New Orleans for a living. The anecdote highlights Lipton's early, lesser known ventures before his fame in yachting and the Lipton tea empire.
A local homeowner rebuilt in a decade and installed Chamberlin Metal Weatherstrips. The strips reduce water intrusion and cold air leakage, improve appearance, and lower fuel bills. Trained installers guarantee workmanship for the life of the building, with demand to consult Chamberlin at 184 Congress St Boston Massachusetts.
Spanish explorers found two rock pillars in a remote New Mexico valley containing rich gold ore. Moorean miner Mike O Leary later surfaced with ore and vanished, spreading rumors of a hidden mine. Tales persist of maps and claims, but no official record of the location.
In 1950 at a Kearney County Kansas camp on the Santa Fe trail a wagon train hid seventy thousand dollars in Spanish gold. Indians shadowed the party and attacked three days later near Pawnee Rock. One survivor reached Fort Leavenworth and died with the tale. A second expedition found only ruined ground where the cottonwood once stood.
A Dorchester bakery visit reveals Gentles Health Bread produced with spotless cleanliness and fully automatic wrapping. Master bakers contribute time-tested recipes, ensuring uniform loaves with consistent nutrition, flavor, and color. The product is popular among residents and housewives who value convenient, reliable bread.
Aluminum combines lightness with strength and corrosion resistance when coated with a thin layer of pure aluminum. While some alloys strengthen aluminum to approach steel, this often reduces corrosion resistance, a drawback mitigated by a protective aluminum coating.
A Hungarian bride parades her nuptial goods on a loaded cart through the village. The assortment includes 18 pillows, nine linen nine silk covers, three mattresses five embroidered sheets three bed covers 30 shirts 27 blouses 12 silk kerchiefs 12 scarfs and a bread-baking dress. Local spectators admire the display.
A Chicago Daily News piece traces the Virgin Islands through discovery by Columbus on his second voyage in 1493, pirate memories along bays, and a succession of rulers from the Knights of Malta to the Danes. It notes St Thomas with its harbor and hillside town, and the enduring mix of Danish and English in daily speech.
The early settlement on the Wilmington Delaware site was Christimbham named for the Queen of Sweden. By 1731 Thomas Willing owned much of the area and titled it Willington. The name was changed to Wilmington upon incorporation in 1739.
A list highlights unusual religious buildings including the cowshed church of Bordon England the wine cask church of Asti California the solid rock church of Haute Isle France and a sea shell broken plate and glass church at Guernsey, noting their quirky architectures.
The piece extols the bus over trains as the modern travel solution, praising quiet, ease, and lower cost. It highlights the Boston and Worcester Lines B and W with mottoes about dependable chauffeurs and safe journeys, and notes broad U S reach from coast to Canada. It closes with a nod to Cambridge and the traveler's confidence in the wheelman.
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